7th Annual Homie Fall Celebration Sunday Oct 12, 2008

[airspuds]

yes bart i have a question

thread drift

how the heck do u leave good discs on the course ?
2 of bz discs found on hole  2 blue

must be night driving

side note

had tire issue at Lemon Lake yesterday and Dan from the L L crew 
lent us a wrench to help change the tire

i had the tire iron but the tire iron did not fit the locking lug nut key
dan lent us a wrench and saved the day

fortunately for us there is a tire shop down the road from the course
7 bucks and a new valve stem and we were back at the course with lunch
with time for the second round

front nine blue  1 over
back nine blue  11  over

red  +5

the group of us did not play all that well

see u on sunday 

[tacimala]

I wonder how much the turnout is going to be affected by the PDGA site being down.

[tacimala]

Anyone looking for a doubles partner for Saturday? Tate is bringing another guy from Kzoo and he doesn't have a partner. I don't know the guy but Tate said he's rated around 930 and that's MI 930. Let me know ASAP please!

[Tom McManus]

Anyone looking for a doubles partner for Saturday? Tate is bringing another guy from Kzoo and he doesn't have a partner. I don't know the guy but Tate said he's rated around 930 and that's MI 930. Let me know ASAP please!

Okay what is MI 930? Why don't you join the California/Texas/North Carolina thread.

[tacimala]

Link?

[Arok]

Saturday random draw or bring your own partner?

[Tom McManus]

Link?

When the pdga site is back and running I will pass it along.

[tacimala]

Just a joke Tom, I know what you are talking about. I retract my comment I guess, but that's just how it is in the land of Chuck Kennedy.

[airspuds]

Memorial disc golf tournament draws nearly 200
StoryDiscussionFont Size: Default font size Larger font size BY JOHN BURBRIDGE
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CEDAR LAKE | Upon returning from the disc golf tournaments he participated in, Matt "Homie" Lovasko sometimes reported things didn't "fly" as well as they should have.

"At times he remarked that they didn't do this, or didn't have this for the golfers," Matt's mother Charlene said. "Most often he complained about the lack of food and beverages at the course, and that they had to travel out of their way for a fast-food lunch."

If only Matt were alive today, for he surely would have preferred the "Homie Cooking" that graced the memorial disc golf tournament that bears his name.

"We feed them twice ... for lunch and dinner," said Matt's step-father and Charlene's husband Jim Donovan, who was preparing a big vat of fire-grilled Italian beef for the nearly 200 participants of the sixth-annual Homie's Fall Classic that took place Oct. 12 at Lemon Lake Park.

"I don't disc golf," Donovan said. "I just do the cooking. This is a big event for the area, and it keeps getting bigger."

Lovasko was one of the top amateur disc golfers in the nation, and was on the verge of turning pro before an apartment fire claimed the Munster native's life in September of 2001.

"When he was alive, Matt always brought people together," said avid disc golfer Chris Diamond, who was unable to participate in the tournament due to a knee injury, yet assisted with the organization.

"A lot of people from around the country travel long distances to be here," Diamond said. "It's a great tribute."

Originally, the memorial tournament took place on Mother's Day of 2002 at a rain-swept Riverside Park in Hammond. Later, it was moved to the fall and relocated at Lemon Lake, which now has a Red, Blue, Silver and Gold course, as well as a nine-hole miniature course.

"It's become one of the best courses around," said Crown Point resident Kathy Bundy, whose husband David was Matt's doubles partner.

Though Charlene considers this time of the year "bittersweet" as Matt's birthday was earlier in the week ("He would have been 30," she said.), the generation range of the tourney's participants raises here spirits.

"You see the past, present and future of the sport," she said. "It was something Matt loved to do, and I knew he was doing it with the right crowd.

"I gave a speech at the start, and I mentioned the tornado, the flooding and all the other stuff that has gone on this year. But the worst of times can bring out the best in people. Matt died eight days after 9-11. It was a terrible time for everyone. Now when I see all these people come out and come together because of Matt ... it's wonderful to watch."


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better late than never

Fly on Homie !

[airspuds]

The results have been posted on PDGA !

First time I have have seen them.

Can't wait til next year !

[tacimala]

Bart Zandstra didn't play open though, I wonder how many other mistakes there are.